Kids Curing Cancer raises over $13,000 at pasta dinner

By Ron Giofu

Kids Curing Cancer (KCC) has been raising money in the fight against cancer for a decade and that continued in full force over the weekend.

KCC presented its annual pasta dinner at Sprucewood Shores Estate Winery Saturday night and raised $13,015.85 from that event alone. Led by the Baillargeon family, KCC fundraises throughout the year, with annual donations to cancer-related causes in March.

The month of March was chosen for the overall donation as the birthday of Dan Gerard is March 8. Gerard passed away from cancer and he was the grandfather of Lauren, Kierstyn and Ty and father of Jodi Baillargeon, mother of the three youths.

Proceeds this year will benefit Erie Shores Hospice in Leamington. “It’s our tenth year overall,” said Lauren, who started KCC as a Malden Central Public School student and continues it as a University of Windsor student.

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